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All infected body and bed-linen should be first put into a
solution of carbolic acid—in the proportion of a wine glassfull
of the acid to a gallon of hot water —and after remaining
therein for at least an hour, be afterwards boiled in water.
All rooms infected with small pox, typhus, or scarlet fever,
should be disinfected with burning brimstone.
INTERMENTS.—The dead should be buried without
delay. No dead body should be kept in a room where persons
are living, but should be removed to the mortuary.
NOTIFICATION, &c—Cases of infectious disease;
defective water supply; stopped drains; offensive closets;
over-crowding; unemptied dustbins, etc., may be reported to
the inspector at the Town Hall, any week day morning at 10
o'clock. All communications are regarded as private, but
they should be authenticated by the proper name and address
of the person giving the information.
By Order of the Vestry,
JOHN DIXON, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
133, Jamaica Road,
August, 1883.